USN-1220-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly...

USN-1219-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1216-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1203-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1208-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1208-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...

USN-1208-1: Linux kernel (Marvel DOVE) vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...

USN-1203-1: Linux kernel (Marvel DOVE) vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Predictable TCP ISN numbers, CIFS client memory corruption...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

RedHat Update for samba RHSA-2011:1219-01

Check for the Version of samba OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for samba RHSA-2011:1219-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

CVE-2011-1771

The cifsclose function in fs/cifs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and BUG or possibly have unspecified other impact by setting the ODIRECT flag during an attempt to open a file on a CIFS filesystem...

Null pointer dereference

The cifsclose function in fs/cifs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and BUG or possibly have unspecified other impact by setting the ODIRECT flag during an attempt to open a file on a CIFS filesystem...

CVE-2011-1771

CVE-2011-1771 affects the Linux kernel up to version 2.6.38, specifically the cifs_close function in fs/cifs/file.c. If a local user opens a CIFS file with the O_DIRECT flag, it can trigger a NULL pointer dereference (and BUG), causing a denial of service or unspecified impact. Mitigation: upgrad...

RHEL 6 : samba and cifs-utils (RHSA-2011:1221)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1221 advisory. Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other information. The cifs-utils package contains utilities for...

RHEL 4 / 5 : samba (RHSA-2011:1219)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1219 advisory. - samba: mount.cifs improper device name and mountpoint strings sanitization CVE-2010-0547 - samba: Race condition by mount mount.cifs...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: samba and cifs-utils security and bug fix update

Updated samba and cifs-utils packages that fix multiple security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: samba security update

Updated samba packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings,...

samba: mount.cifs improper device name and mountpoint strings sanitization

client/mount.cifs.c in mount.cifs in smbfs in Samba 3.4.5 and earlier does not verify that the 1 device name and 2 mountpoint strings are composed of valid characters, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mtab corruption via a crafted string...

samba/cifs-utils: mount.cifs and umount.cifs fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

smbfs in Samba 3.5.8 and earlier attempts to use 1 mount.cifs to append to the /etc/mtab file and 2 umount.cifs to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of the /etc/mtab file via a process wi...